diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c323431f3b..34ee3a829a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     "favico.js": "^0.3.10",
     "gfm.css": "^1.1.2",
     "highlight.js": "^9.13.1",
-    "matrix-js-sdk": "5.2.0",
+    "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop",
     "matrix-react-sdk": "2.3.1",
     "olm": "https://packages.matrix.org/npm/olm/olm-3.1.4.tgz",
     "postcss-easings": "^2.0.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index de40bc5b76..4d79603f0d 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -7452,7 +7452,7 @@ mathml-tag-names@^2.1.1:
 
 "matrix-js-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop":
   version "5.2.0"
-  resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/223d37ffce674a23ca73702f04b9ba31cfd84196"
+  resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/934ed37fdc90948273d7da3ec9f8728195c78a63"
   dependencies:
     "@babel/runtime" "^7.8.3"
     another-json "^0.2.0"
@@ -7502,7 +7502,7 @@ matrix-react-sdk@2.3.1:
     is-ip "^2.0.0"
     linkifyjs "^2.1.6"
     lodash "^4.17.14"
-    matrix-js-sdk "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop"
+    matrix-js-sdk "5.2.0"
     minimist "^1.2.0"
     pako "^1.0.5"
     png-chunks-extract "^1.0.0"